Jac's roundup of pop culture news and Internet findings

One good thing about Halloween falling on a Thursday is that we get two
weekends of celebrity costumes to dissect.

Heidi Klum always pulls out the stops for Halloween, hosting a major
bash every year. And her costumes are always over-the-top. This year is no
different, though Heidi wasn’t dressed in a crazy cyborg suit or a scary Kali
goddess getup — Ms. Project Runway was
unrecognizable as an old ass lady!

There’s
a 15 percent chance this is actually just Heidi Klum after a week with no Botox,
green juice or airbrush artists.

There are essentially three categories in which Halloween costumes fall:
“sexy” costumes, offensive costumes and pop culture costumes. As Julianne Hough
proved with her Orange Is the New Black-face
ensemble, it’s typical for costume categories to overlap. Here are
my fave star costumes of the year, which happen to all be celebs dressed as
other celebs. #meta

Miley as Lil' Kim

Honey Boo Boo family as the Kardashian Klan

Ellen as Nicki Minaj

Jenny McCarthy as Miley’s mouf

So apparently "funeral selfies" are a goddam thing – Bust, The
Atlantic,
Jezebel and others are all talking about the trend this week. Some people argue that kids of the digital age
don’t know how to express their feelings except by documenting every passing
moment — no matter how somber — on social media. This is just the modern way of
grieving! Which actually make sense because, come to think of it, when I went
to a funeral as a young teen, all the kids would snap self-portraits in church
with disposable cameras, run to Walgreen’s afterward and then scan them to our
LiveJournal pages — hashtags just weren’t invented yet! Oh wait, none of that
actually happened because that’s fucking strange behavior no matter your generation.

Guy Fieri né
FERRY is all over the news this week. The intolerable TV “chef” got into a
recorded altercation with his drunk hairdresser who had just gotten sloshed on a plane
(taking them to Flavortown, I presume).

Fighting is never the answer, children, but who wouldn’t want to beat
down the person responsible for basing a real hairstyle...

...off of a hat primarily
given as a gag gift:

Pictured:
“Flaming Flair Hair Visor,” not the
actual scalped head of Guy Fieri

Two days after the cat fight, the King of Donkey Sauce found himself in court
testifying against the man who allegedly stole his neon yellow Lamborghini (which is
equally as obnoxious as Guy himself), resulting in one of the best trial sketches of all time.